Word: ages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...returning to college life have a large expense to defray in procuring civilian clothing and other non-military equipment. The sudden termination of the war has financially embarrassed large numbers of undergraduates who have been in the service only for the short time since the draft age was lowered. The small amount of pay did not suffice to cover, in many cases, the deficit caused by lack of remuneration for expenses to and from Cambridge, which was the point of enrolment of the S. A. T. C. There were also many cases where college men were commissioned shortly before...
...energy that knew no bounds and which in itself inspired all who felt it, and he was a patriot whose loyalty to his land his critics never ventured to assail. His fall sends a shudder through the world. A beacon light has gone out. A towering oak, a landmark age-old has fallen. Yale bows its head in silent tribute to this great American. YALE NEWS...
Lieutenant Whitney was twenty-one years of age and prepared at St. Mark's School, where he received his first military training. Upon entering Harvard in the fall of 1916, he immediately became prominent in athletics and played on the Freshman eleven in the Yale game. He joined the R. O. T. C. in the summer of 1917 and went to Plattsburg for further military training. Returning to College in the fall of the same year, he again took an active part in athletics and made the University eleven and the crew...
...national army. That the regular army never was. Thirdly, there is only one principle on which a force of this character can be constructed in a democracy, namely, the principle of universal military service as an obligation on the part of every able-bodied man of suitable age...
...universal military service, and as the least expensive and the most democratic of the various methods for bringing this to pass, urges the adoption of the Swiss national army plan. This would entail compulsory service on the part of every able-bodied man between 20 and 45 years of age for a definite period of each year and would constitute the nucleus of an effective fighting force in time...